You fail to see the underlining piracy implications that break any encryptions on copying never mind the lack of morality in the cyber world. Having digital copies on the internet makes textbook price points drop as piracy will force retailers and publishers alike to compete with lowering demand for the same textbooks they sell for 180 bucks that students are burning for their friends on CDs they received from rapidshare.com. Look at the Napster, Kaza example of how people eventually abandoned the piracy of music for premium virus free content for 1 dollar a song with 14 songs being the equivalent price of a CD. With textbooks, movies etc the same situation will occur and digital databases with unlimited material will be available for subscription fees you pay per month. Like your cable, if you want education, digital books etc thats one price, so are movies music etc, those things you don't desire you don't pay for. Distributors are well aware people will be copying their content but their goal is a reverse pyramid scheme based on the low cost of the product, be fair to the client and they will be fair to you. I don't ask my friend to burn me his 1.99 cent apple songs rather i buy them myself because the price point is fair. To your articles point, at face value you are correct, and the school system will lose money as the students get money in their pocket. Isn't this free market capitalism at its finest though? Having been blessed to avoid the corrupt beauracracy of the DC public school system, a multimillion dollar conglomerate of idiots liars thieves and money, I don't think the school systems need the money. Rather, put the power in the hands of the students to determine what needs to be changed.
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Newt is right about the unions in janitorial positions of power at public schools feeding off government financing. You could offer light janitorial work to the students who are struggling financially for a lot less and they would learn the value of time, money, and hard work while simultaneously getting an education. You think we could have offered the same students, perhaps high schoolers to work at the assembly lines at GM and Ford plants prior to 2008?
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